Elk zone bypassed when auto arming

mikefamig

Senior Member
I am doing some rewiring of my garage system and didn't finish yesterday so I left two zones disconnected and open overnight. When the garage auto-armed by a rule in the evening the two open zones bypassed and the garage armed successfully even though those zones are not defined as bypassable.
 
Is this normal? Am I missing something? This means that if a zone wire is broken by accident that the system will not warn me when it arms by a rule. I'm will probably report it to Elk as something to correct in a future version.
 
Mike.
 
It is normal.
 
It also affects me using generic keyfobs to arm my system. I use 2 areas - one "interior" and the other is the rest of the house. When I arm away via a keyfob, I have the system run through a laundry list of system checks - one of them is to verify there are no unsecure zones and if there are then alert to me by chirping the siren and flashing the strobe - along with not closing the garage door (we enter/exit through the garage). Now, the "interior" area is basically backup sensors should someone get past the main house sensors. I have sensors on things like, dresser drawers, closets, and such (I also use them to give me notice if our cleaning lady was the last person to disarm the house and a zone, such our dresser drawer, becomes unsecure). Now, the interior zones are armed only in away mode via a rule for when area 1 is armed away and if there are any open zones I freely let the system bypass them. But the main house system I prevent that from happening via rules.
 
Thanks for affirming that it's normal. It's not a problem here, just something that I didn't consider in the install. I also have a keyfob and may make up some new rules.
 
Mike.
 
I just looked at the log in ekeypad and there is a line entry for each zone as it was bypassed and then an entry for system armed.
 
Is that attribute or bypassable checked on your system? I seem to remember if that isn't enabled, the system will attempt to arm and subsequently stop.
 
DELInstallations said:
Is that attribute or bypassable checked on your system? I seem to remember if that isn't enabled, the system will attempt to arm and subsequently stop.
 
The bypassable attribute is not checked in the zone definition, I just double checked and the zones are not defined as Bypassable. Normally when I arm from the keypad at the house the system will do as you say, it will voice the violated zone and not arm. But when it is armed via rules in the garage it bypassed the violated zones and armed. I have never armed the garage from it's keypad. always via rule.
 
Mike.
 
When I tripped over the issue I think it was either Brad or Spanky that informed me that happens because there is no user associated with the arm task so it runs at a different level. IIRC when I arm via my generic keyfobs it logs the user as a number.
 
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